I have a question re Filemaker 6, and hope some of you have a memory of that long gone but well loved version.

I am unfortunately being forced to convert my beloved home made FMP6 electronic medical record (EMR) to a government certified commercial program, and I am hoping to transfer as much information as possible.

I"m not sure of this, but it seems that the best way to transfer office notes, procedure results etc will be as images of the reports with all the beautiful formatting intact.

I will need to export images of the reports together with key fields such as the date of the report and the patient ID number.

The only way I see to export images is to print them as pdfs or JPEGs into a Preview file, import the images into iPhoto, export the iPhoto images into a folder and then import the images into a Filemaker file. After that I need to export them from Filemaker into some format that the commercial EMR can import.

Seems much more kludgy than it should, and I can't figure out how to keep the Date field and the Patient ID field together with the images.

Can anyone advise me?

Thanks for your wisdom!